I know I need to prioritise but I first need to put all the to dos down in a list. Ron December 29, I have tornadoes at the moment after the Christmas holiday. I appreciate your good advice. Karin December 30, 7: Earlier this week, I found myself in exactly the situation you described in this post. I felt paralyzed, wandered from task to task, not really accomplishing anything meaningful, feeling like I was wasting precious time.
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Finally I decided to sit down and put at least all of the big and small projects I would like to accomplish in on paper. No wonder my head was spinning! The concept of all thoughts and ideas carrying the same weight while they are still swirling around in your head is an eye opener for me. Now I cannot wait to sit down and follow the steps you have outlined in this post! Jacquie Tinch January 1, 5: Maria Leisurely Does It January 2, 4: This is really good advice and it works.
I always feel like I have a million thoughts swirling around in my head.
Setting a timer also really works for me. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Would you like to tell us about a lower price?
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Cashback will be credited as Amazon Pay balance within 10 days. Valid only on your first 2 online payments. Cashback will be credited as Amazon Pay balance within 10 days from purchase. Here's how terms and conditions apply. But also to do anything else in life that is of lasting significance. To build a bridge that will stand strong and look beautiful for generations.
To run a business—a business that provides useful and dignified work as it contributes something beneficial to the world.
To form and maintain a marriage—a relationship of mutual care and perpetual stability within which children can grow up secure, confident, and wholesome. Ryan Holiday in a recent book Perennial Seller provides some examples of what it takes to produce something special:. But it takes some thousands of hours to become a truly capable accountant, or chemist, or pastor, or friend.
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When did Sidney Crosby or LeBron James or Serena Williams become so good that they were worthy to be named among the best ever at their sport? When they were wowing crowds as teenagers? When they were winning championships in their early twenties? No, even in the intensely compressed life of the athlete, it took years and years and years for them to hit their peak.
How long did it take to build Apple or Facebook or Amazon?
Movies about them can compress our sense of time, but in fact it took years and years, even in this apparently lightning-fast age of dotcoms. How long did it take to make Tesla Motors a significant force in the automotive world?
Even at the fast pace of modern life, everything that is deeply important in life—art, business, sport, politics, friendship, family life, discipleship, character—takes a long time to produce. And here is an interesting implication of that principle. Yes, a particular work of art, a particular speech, a particular performance can be a matter of focused short-term effort. But to produce something great, or even just competently good, requires years of preparation: Some Christians seem to make sport of quoting Friedrich Nietzsche when he is wrong, as he so often is. But he is also remarkably often right, as an acute, if extreme, observer of the world, and here we Christians would agree with him quoting now from his book, Beyond Good and Evil:.
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The singular fact remains … that everything of the nature of freedom, elegance, boldness, dance, and masterly certainty, which exists or has existed, whether it be in thought itself, or in administration, or in speaking and persuading, in art just as in conduct, has only developed by means of … [a] long OBEDIENCE in the same direction[.